The Authoritarian Personality Essay Plan

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  • Created on: 01-02-18 10:19
What did Adorno want to understand?
The anti-Semitism of the Holocaust
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Adorno's research led him to draw very different conclusions to which other psychologist?
Milgram
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Adorno based his research on which belief?
That a high level of obedience is basically a psychological disorder
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Who did Adorno investigate in his research?
Over 2000 middle-class, white Americans
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What did Adorno use to measure the authoritarian personality?
The F-scale (fascism scale)
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People who scored high on the F-scale tended to identify with who?
'Strong' people
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People who scored high on the F-scale were very conscious of what?
Their own and other people's status
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People who scored high on the F-scale showed excessive respect to who?
Those of higher status
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What kind of cognitive style did people with an authoritarian personality have?
There was no 'fuzziness' between categories of people, with fixed and distinctive stereotypes about other groups
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Adorno found a strong correlation between between what?
Authoritarianism and prejudice
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What are some of the authoritarian characteristics?
Extreme respect for authority and submissiveness to it, have highly conventional attitudes towards race, sex and gender, believe we need strong and powerful leaders, are inflexible with their outlook and are uncomfortable with uncertainty
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Where did Adorno conclude the authoritarian personality formed?
In childhood, as a result of harsh parenting
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What does the parenting style identified by Adorno feature?
Extremely strict discipline, an expectation of absolute loyalty, impossibly high standards, severe criticism of perceived failings and it characterised by conditional love
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What does Adorno argue the harsh parenting style has on the children?
It creates resentment and hostility in the child but the child cannot express these feelings directly against their parents due to fear. Therefore, these feelings are displaced onto others who are weaker (scapegoating)
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What are the five evaluation points of the authoritarian personality?
Research support, limited explanation, political bias, methodological problems and correlation, not causation
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